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PREFACE.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I. THE MEDICINE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.

BOOK II. THE MEDICINE OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS.

BOOK III. GREEK MEDICINE.

BOOK IV. CELTIC, TEUTONIC, AND MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE.

BOOK V. THE DAWN OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE.

BOOK VI. THE AGE OF SCIENCE.

APPENDIX. ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MINERALS USED IN MEDICINE.

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

Title: The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art

A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

Author: Edward Berdoe

Language: English

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THE HEALING ART.

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE BROWNING CYCLOPÆDIA.

A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning, with copious Explanatory Notes and References on all difficult passages. Second Edition. Pp. xx., 572. Price 10s. 6d.

Some Opinions of the Press.

  • “Conscientious and painstaking.”—Times.
  • “A serviceable book, and deserves to be widely bought.”—The Spectator.
  • “A book of far-reaching research and careful industry.”—Scotsman.
  • “A most learned and creditable piece of work.”—Vanity Fair.
  • “A monument of industry and devotion.”—Bookman.

BROWNING’S MESSAGE TO HIS TIME:

His Religion, Philosophy, and Science. With Portrait and Facsimile Letters. Third Edition. Price 3s. 6d.
[Dilettante Library.]

Opinions of the Press.

“Full of admiration and sympathy.”—Saturday Review.

“Should have a wide circulation; it is interesting and stimulative.”—Literary World.

“We have no hesitation in strongly recommending this little volume to any who desire to understand the moral and mental attitude of Robert Browning.... We are much obliged to Dr. Berdoe for his volume.”—Oxford University Herald.


EXPELLING THE DISEASE-DEMON.

[Frontispiece.


Title Page

A POPULAR HISTORY OF MEDICINE
IN ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.

BY

EDWARD BERDOE,
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons, England; Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, London, etc., etc.
Author of “The Browning CyclopÆdia,” etc., etc.

London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1893

Butler & Tanner,
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Frome, and London.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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